Simple desires don’t promise a simple life.Before my latest birthday, I wanted three things: to fall in love, grow wings, and find my biological parents. In the weeks since I turned twenty-nine, I’ve discovered my father was a magic-devouring tyrant, my half-brother wanted me dead, and a blood witch held the power behind the dragon king’s throne.Now, the witch is dead, my father’s behind bars, and my brother swears he’s ready to turn over a new leaf.

Politics is never simple when it comes to dragons. Neither is romance.My biological father anointed himself dragon king. Now that he found me, the cunning despot plans to groom me to expand his holdings before appointing me his heir.I’ll never accept the dragon king’s paper throne—but it’s within my power to answer for his sins and restore the magic he stole from others.My older half-brother wants me dead, his lover wants my blood for its life-exten...

Everybody says I look good on paper.I was adopted into the Winslow dragon clan, with their boatloads of status and wealth. I’m built like a superhero. I have loyal friends and a thriving surveillance business. Only, there’s so much more to my story.My parents are hellbent on mating me to a high society dragon. But the truth is I’m damaged goods. I’m twenty-nine, and my dragon form is stuck in adolescence. I have no wings, I’m afraid to use my magic, and not...

On the eve of the new millennium, diamond thief Noel Snow seduced FBI special agent Robert Cuffe, then fled into the dawn. Now a successful novelist, Noel uses his capers as fodder for his books, and has modeled his hero's nemesis (and potential love interest) on Cuffe. Though he leaves Robert a drunken phone message every New Year's Eve, Noel hasn't seen or heard from him in a decade.So he's thrilled when his former lover shows up at his upstate farm one Christmas Eve. Elation qui...

1959. The long, hot summer bakes the sleepy, Southern town of Orchard Hill. Billy Ray Davenport, an aspiring physician and only son of an indomitable traveling minister, is a young man with a plan that starts with working in a small-town doctor’s office before he begins medical school in the fall. Handsome, principled, and keenly observant, he will lodge with the Millers, the local doctor’s family. But he never bargained for Lizzie Quinlan—a complex, kindred spirit who is beautifu...

Twinkle, twinkle little star.Heathens coming, brand new scar.Slaughter turns to pained goodbye.Never knowing if I’ll die.A DeAngelis family war is brewing and these heathens are the vicious ringleaders, pulling the strings of their pawns for the greatest show of all—a show that will guarantee sweet, sweet victory.Only victory comes with a price.The question is, what are they willing to lose to get the one thing they’ve always wanted?T...

Cold-blooded murder.Do I have it in me?I’ve watched the people I love commit the worst kinds of crimes and within the blink of an eye, I could be just like them. I feel the jagged glass beneath my fingers, but do I have the strength to follow this through? How much of my soul am I willing to sacrifice to make this right?Nic was supposed to be my rock. He was supposed to be my world until he showed me a side of himself that terrified me. He’s not the boy I once loved...

As a divorced man in my thirties with a throwaway job and very few friends, I admit that I've made a lot of bad decisions over the years.Rounding out the top of that epic list was allowing my son's best friend, Quinn, to talk me into taking him on a two-week summer road trip... alone.What was supposed to be quality father-son bonding time before Joshua went off to college has somehow transpired into a battle of wills between me and his nineteen-year-old bes...

After Cade Williams, the best tight end Madison University has ever seen, is acquitted by a jury and reinstated by the dean, he is determined to focus on three goals:1. Help his team win a bowl game,2. Ace his exams and, most importantly,3. Women are completely, utterly, and irrevocably off-limits.Strait-laced accounting major, Vivian Ellis, hasn’t watched a complete game of football in her life. And when sh...

Make one stupid bet, and suddenly, you're fake dating your hot new neighbor...There is nothing like hiding a secret identity from your roommate besties to complicate... everything. And when they decide I need a love life makeover, I can't tell them why I don't have time for their schemes.Retirement home nurse by day, lead singer of a rock band by night. Not on the schedule: Men. I'd rather cuddle with Bernice, the hangry boa next door.I can't think ...

It’s raining, it’s pouring.My three kings I’m mourning.Devil to wed. I think they’re dead.This phoenix will rise come morning.They’re dead.I feel it right down in the bottom of my soul. They were snatched away like trophies in the night and slaughtered before my very eyes. Those three gunshots will forever ring through my mind, tormenting every waking minute of my life.Bang! Bang! Bang!Roman. Levi. Marcus.The true leaders of t...

From Wall Street Journal & USA TODAY Bestselling Author Willow Winters comes a Highest Bidder Holiday Short.